Medieval Metaphysics Archive

In order to write a fantasy novel you have to commit to metaphysics - you have to create a world, that world has to have a certain consistency, it has to have ontology, what is being in that world, what is it ethics in that world - and Tolkien is particular interested in these metaphysical questions.

Russell focuses on how important late medieval thinkers such as John Wyclif (c. 1320 – 1384) and Jean Gerson (1363–1429) understood metaphysics and how this had an instrumental effect on their political thought.